Colour Match A Photograph

Actually it is Color Match – American English spelling of the word ‘colour’ – and it is a tool made by Retouch4me.

I came across it in a tutorial by Robin Whalley, who explains how to use it, either the free or the paid version.

So far so good. But in the comments to Robin’s article, someone queried why one would bother with Color Match because a ‘match color’ capability is built right into Photoshop.

Robin contended that what Photoshop had to offer was erratic.

So I had to try the Photoshop tool, and using it in Photoshop is simple. You open the image you want to tweak. Then you open an image that has a colour palette you like, and the tool then imports the colours of that reference image onto the image you want to tweak.

You do this by going to Image > Adjust > Match Color. That brings up a dialogue box with a drop-down. You chose the reference image you want to use (that’s why it has to be open in Photoshop) and it automatically applies the colour grading from the reference image.

Here is the screen to follow to find ‘Match Color’ in Photoshop.

The Photos

Here are various version of this flower, starting with the un-tweaked version.

Each of the following versions was mapped with a different reference image.

Try to guess what reference images I used.

For my part, I am going to watch Robin Whalley’s tutorial again and I will probably have a go with Color Match from Retouch4me.